Google CEO says company will review AI scholar's abrupt exit

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has apologized for how a prominent artificial intelligence researcher's abrupt departure last week has 'seeded doubts' in the company.

In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a visit to El Centro College in Dallas. Pichai has apologized for how a prominent artificial intelligence researcher's abrupt departure last week has “seeded doubts” in the company. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has apologized for how a prominent artificial intelligence researcher's abrupt departure last week has "seeded doubts" in the company.

Gebru, a top scholar in the field of AI ethics, said she was fired last week. Google has referred to it as a resignation. The dispute centred around Google's push to disassociate itself from a research paper Gebru co-authored examining the societal dangers of an AI technology used by Google.

 

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